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...square mile crammed with 200,000 people and unmanageable crime outside Haiti's capital of Port-au-Prince. Charles, the owner of a soccer team, says his kidnappers never bothered with disguise. "I'm a big guy with a bad temper, but I kept my cool. They had guns bigger than me. They have lots of them," he says. The ring has hundreds of collaborators, including teenagers, and they get what they want. Charles shelled out several thousand dollars for freedom, but his was one of many payoffs. On the average day, 10 kidnappings occur; 20 on Christmas weekend alone...
...Stanley, the number of deals last year with a volume of $1 billion or more doubled from 2004, while the number of transactions exceeding $5 billion more than tripled, to 408 from 130. Behind this boom is a growing sense among European businesses that they need to get substantially bigger to withstand ever fiercer global competition. A series of Europe-wide measures over the past decade to deregulate and liberalize industries ranging from telecommunications to energy has made this consolidation easier - and more urgent. And the growing role that Eastern Europe plays as both a market and a production site...
...post posed one of the few matchup problems for the Eagles (8-2) all night. Harris hauled in five offensive rebounds, using his long arms to cover more ground underneath the basket.“He certainly played very well tonight in a game where he was up against bigger, stronger people,” Sullivan said. “He got to rebounds out of his space, and he wasn’t afraid to take the ball to the basket.”“The ball just kind of fell to me,” Harris...
...They were ninth in the nation coming in, so I was really surprised that we got so many," Stehle said. "I don't think that most of our rebounds are coming from our bigger guys. They're coming more from our guards...
...Goffredo’s bigger contribution came on the defensive end, as he drew two critical charges on Colgate guard Alvin Reed in the second half...